Word: russians
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prof. Whitney of Yale, is corresponding member of the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences. - Yale News...
Probably the largest literary prize ever offered is that of $1,000,000 to be given in 1925 by the Russian Academy for the best work on the life and reign of Alexandria I. In 1855, shortly after the death of Alexandria I, the sum of 50,000 rubies was offered by one of his favorite ministers, to be given as a prize a century after his death, and this at compound interest will amount in 1925 to $1,000,000. - Yale News...
...spite of his disadvantages he has succeeded in giving a very readable account of President Grevy. The career of this famous French statesmen, who has been prominent for so many years, is shown to be most interesting. Mr. Berenson writes a criticism of the comedy, The Revisor, by the Russian author Gogol. In spite of the fact that Mr. Berenson does not grasp his subject with the firmness which might be desired, yet his knowledge of early Russian literature and his thoughtful estimate of the piece in question, The Revisor, make what he says worthy of attention...
...Leipsic University, a few years ago, the socialistic element was particularly strong. German Socialists, Russian Nihilists, and bold radical spirits from Poland, Roumania, and other countries of Europe, composed a strange and reckless company in the heart of the university. A young American, of extremely radical views, entered the university at about this time, and it was his fortune to meet in daily intercourse the most extreme socialistic and nihilistic section. B - , as his name may be called, had determined to earn his own living for the first year, and, as a result, he soon found himself in the Convictorium...
Cornell will shortly put "A Russian Honeymoon" on the stage...